Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Historical perspectives John Dunning and Roy Calne; 2. Immunological principles of acute rejection Fadi G. Issa, Ryoichi Goto and Kathryn J. Wood; 3. Immunosupression: past, present and future Robert Gaston and Vineeta Kumar; 4. Major complications: 4A. Cancer Bimalangshu R. Dey and Thomas Spitzer; 4B. Pathology of chronic rejection Yael B. Kushner and Robert B. Colvin; 4C. Infection Camille Nelson Kotton; 5. Organ donor management and procurement David Zaas; Part II. Heart: 6. Recipient selection Jayan Parameshwar and R. V. Venkateswaran; 7. Donor heart selection Jonathan G. Zaroff and Kiran K. Kusch; 8. Ventricular assist devices Steven S. L. Tsui and David G. Healy; 9. Surgical procedure D. P. Jenkins and R. V. Venkateswaran; 10. Management during surgery Kate Drummond and Andrew Klein; 11. Postoperative care and early complications Mandeep R. Mehra; 12. Long-term management and outcomes Clive J. Lewis and Harikrishnan Parthasarathy; 13. Pediatric heart transplantation Michael Burch and Jacob Simmonds; Part III. Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation: 14. Recipient selection Jasmir Parmar; 15. Live donor lobar lung donation Hiroshi Date; 16. Surgical procedure Faruk Ozalp, Tanveer Butt and Stefan V. B. Schueler; 17. Management during surgery Peter Slinger; 18. Postoperative care and early complications Leo Ginns; 19. Long-term management and outcomes Paul Corris; 20. Pediatric lung transplantation Samuel Goldfarb and Stuart C. Sweet; Part IV. Liver: 21. Recipient selection Alex Gimson; 22. Living donor live transplantation Koji Hashimoto, Cristiano Quintini and Charles Miller; 23. Surgical procedure Neville Jamieson and Simon Harper; 24. Perioperative care and early complications John Klinck and Andrew Butler; 25. Long-term management and outcomes Graeme Alexander and William Gelson; 26. Pediatric liver transplantation Giorgina Mieli-Vergani and Hector Vilca-Melendez; Part V. Kidney: 27. Recipient selection Ernest I. Mandel and Nina Tolkoff-Rubin; 28. Sensitization of kidney transplant recipients Nick Pritchard; 29. Live donor kidney donation Arthur Matas and Hassan N. Ibrahim; 30. Surgical procedure Paul Gibbs; 31. Perioperative care and early complications John Forsythe and Lorna Marson; 32. Long-term management and outcomes John Firth and S. Mulroy; 33. Pediatric kidney transplantation Khashayar Vakili and Heung Bae Kim; Part VI. Other Abdominal Organs: 34. Pancreatic transplantation Dixon B. Kaufman; 35. Pancreatic islet transplantation James F. Markmann and Heidi Yeh; 36. Intestinal transplantation Stephen Middleton, Simon M. Gabe, Neville Jamieson and Andrew Butler; Part VII. Other: 37. Composite tissue allotransplantation: face transplantation Maria Siemienow and Can Ozturk; 38. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Charles Crawley and Thomas Spitzer; 39. Corneal transplantation Frank Larkin and Yvonne Luo; Part VIII. The Transplant Service: 40. UK and European perspective – legal and operational framework Chris Rudge and Alex Rahmel; 41. US perspective – legal and operational framework Frank Delmonico, Walter Graham and Richard Luskin; 42. Conclusions Clive J. Lewis; Index.